SAN DIEGO -- These are not good times for the San Diego Padres.On Saturday night, third baseman Yangervis Solartes wife, Yuliette, died at age 31 due to complications from her fight against cancer.Were broken-hearted for Yangervis, Padres manager Andy Green said Sunday. We know he and his family have been dealing with this throughout the season. Right now, there are things that are so much more important to baseball.Then on Sunday afternoon, the Padres took a 6-3 loss to the Colorado Rockies and absorbed a three-game sweep at Coors Field.Solarte is away from the team. Catcher Derek Norris is day-to-day with an injured finger, and the Padres are playing without a right-handed-hitting outfielder. General manager A.J. Preller starts his 30-day, Major League Baseball-mandated suspension Monday.And any help that might be coming from El Paso is another three days away because the Chihuahuas are headed to Tuesday nights Triple-A Championship Game against International League champion Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (New York Yankees) after winning the Pacific Coast League championship Saturday night.On Monday night, the ailing Padres open a 10-game homestand.As if they need a reminder of how tough this season has been, the Padres (62-87) open the homestand with three games against Arizona (63-86). Over the last two weeks of the season, the Padres and Diamondbacks will play six times essentially to see who finishes last in the National League West and possibly enters the offseason with the second-worst record in the National League.Not that matters are much better for the Diamondbacks.While Green seems secure in his job, Arizona manager Chip Hale, his former boss, is one of several Diamondbacks leaders who could be two weeks away from the unemployment line.Matters are that dire in the southwest corner of the United States.The matchup Monday will see Arizona right-hander Braden Shipley (4-3, 5.56 ERA) oppose left-hander Clayton Richard (2-3, 3.00 ERA). Richard is 2-2 with a 1.70 ERA in eight appearances (six starts) since returning to the Padres in August as a free agent.Richards return to San Diego is easily explained. One, Clayton and Ashley Richard enjoy living in San Diego. Two, as Clayton says, The Padres promised me a chance to start.Shipley, 24, the Diamondbacks first-round pick (15th overall) in the 2013 draft, will be making his ninth start -- and second at Petco Park -- after two straight appearances out of the Arizona bullpen.Its different, Shipley said of the second and third relief outings in his 91-appearance professional career. As pitchers, were so routine oriented that my whole pregame ritual was thrown off a bit.Shipley picked up his fourth win of his rookie season as a reliever against the Rockies on Wednesday, although he allowed five runs on eight hits in four innings. 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ESPN is getting a do-over.Eleven years after the network telecast an NFL game from Mexico City , it will do so again when the Raiders host the Texans on Monday night.Jay Rothman, ESPNs vice president of production and the Monday Night Football producer, wants this broadcast to be a lot different.We were there in 2005 and I wish we could do `05 over again, and we will not make the same omissions, Rothman says. We went in and did the game and got out.Mexico City is such an awesome city and we will make it a weekend-long spectacle.ESPN has lucked out that the game has plenty of significance, with the Raiders tied for the AFC West lead and best record in the conference heading in, and the Texans leading the AFC South. But this is about more than football.It is about the first international series match there since the Cardinals beat the 49ers at Azteca Stadium in 2005. Its about the stadium itself, one of the most famous sports venues in the world. Its about the fans, who might not follow football as closely as they do futbol, but who generally embrace the American game.And it is about Mexico.The Xs and Os we do every week, Rothman says. I think we are silly not to take advantage and sprinkle in the history of Azteca Stadium. Culturally, look at the fans of Mexico, who share the passion they have for the NFL. The food, the flavor, and points of interest. We will do that all within the body of a three-hour show.Actually, ESPN isnt so limited. It will also stage its pregame shows and other studio programming from Mexico City this weekend. Joining the broadcast team of Sean McDonough, Jon Gruden and Lisa Salters will be ESPN Deportes John Sutcliffe, who lives in the city.John is a rock star in Mexico now, he is our breakthrough guy, Rothman says. He will have kind of like a Jim McKay host-type role, though that is challenging within a football game.He will be integrated to share the great moments of Azteca, educate people on the fandom of Mexican fans and as a great people. He is our point person to share those perspectives and stories.Gruden has become something of a rock star in the NFL broadcasting world, and while his main job is to dissect play on the field, it will be intriguing to hear his take on not only the game, but the entire scene Monday night.He coached the Raiders in a preseason game against the Cowboys in Mexico City in 2001.The stadium is what I remember the most, he says. The tradition, the monstrosity of it, the excitement of playing in a place you have only seen and hearrd about.ddddddddddddI am anxious to get back there and rekindle the feeling.Azteca has undergone massive renovations, not only to attract the NFLs return, but as home of Club America and of the Mexican national soccer team, and to keep it on the radar for major events in the worlds most popular sport. Yet it has kept much of its uniqueness, Rothman notes.Theres still the moat and the barbed wire, which was there in `05, he says. They built these beautiful locker rooms, but they are outside the stadium (bowl).Players will walk to and from the field through the stands to the stadiums outside, which is where the locker rooms are. It is 7,200 feet (in altitude), and you think especially of the heavy players wearing pads making that walk. Cant imagine doing it with helmets and pads on. They will be sucking air bigtime.It will allow for unique shots and vantage points, not only from the air but the nooks and crannies of the stadium and its features, the march to the field and back up, the pageantry.Rothman promises his network wont avoid covering any non-football news that becomes relevant with the NFL in town. Concern has been voiced in some circles about potential protests in Mexico City over the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.We wear our news hats, too, and we will get together and discuss that, Rothman says. If there are things outside and inside the stadium to cover, we would be criticized for ignoring them and we need to do the right thing.I dont think wed intentionally shoot specific signs (of protest), but if we see what we have seen outside the Trump Tower, we will be obligated to cover it.Gruden says he has no concerns about safety or security.I am excited to go, he says. Ive got my passport and ready to roll. 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